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Written for executive coaches, teachers, and other development professionals, the book explores the seven roles or “Voices” that coaches assume while working with a client. The “Voices” are: Master, Partner, Investigator, Reflector, Teacher, Guide and Contractor. Silsbee illuminates the dynamic relationship between these roles, and integrates them in an intelligent roadmap for any coaching conversation. This book offers a helpful resource for internal and external executive coaches as well as leader coaches, consultants, trainers, teachers, and facilitators.
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Regardless of your level of coaching experience, you are likely to be asked to support the development of people with whom you share a professional or personal relationship.
In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of his best–selling book The Mindful Coach, expert coach Doug Silsbee presents his practical Septet Model as an ideal tool for conducting coaching conversations with executives, leaders, and other professionals. The model differentiates seven roles (or Voices) that anyone in a coaching role can use when engaging in these learning conversations: Master, Partner, Investigator, Reflector, Teacher, Guide, and Contractor. In this important book, Silsbee illuminates the dynamic relationship among these seven roles and shows how to integrate them into an intelligent strategy that can be applied to any coaching conversation.
Designed as a down–to–earth resource, The Mindful Coach is filled with practical exercises and sample dialogues for learning and applying the model. Throughout the book, Silsbee′s strong emphasis on self–knowledge and mindfulness integrates with the Septet Model in a transformational approach to coaching that has consistently produced significant and sustainable results for leaders in Fortune 100 companies, nonprofit organizations, business schools, education, and government.
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Format:Hardcover
When Doug first wrote the first version of this book, I was serving as his coach mentor. At the time, I knew there would be evolution. As a practitioner of mindfulness trained by Thich Nhat Hanh and a Global Executive Coach mentoring others in my field, I knew that it was important to "hold lightly" the various "hats" Doug was proposing. Still, I knew that in the world of books, the formula sells, and the number seven is almost magical ("Wow, if I can just master these seven roles, I can be a great coach..." is the way it may go).
And yet, as Doug's intro to this edition indicates, it's a more complicated, and much richer journey than appears at first glance. Becoming a mindful coach is founded on practicing mindfulness as a human being, rather than taking on roles according to a formula. His advice to take what appeals and works after diligent practice, then leave the rest (or words to that effect), is well expressed, for mindfulness can be practised in anything we do: the opening of a door, walking down the street, driving a car. In coaching, it is about developing an awareness of many levels of what is happening in the relationship between the coach and the client who has come to the coach to learn from the inside out.
If I were to look for a Third Edition of this book (and Doug may be up for that as he sees the book now as a journey rather than a product), I would look for aspects of the relationship between the coach and client, aspects that emerge when the coach comes to the session with the question "What will we learn together today from these two minds and our conversation?"
Still, I suggest you hop on board the journey at this point! It's well worth taking and in this book, Doug's role is serving as a reflective companion and colleague.
Hannah S. Wilder, Advantara(R) Global Executive Learning and Coach Education Institute.
And yet, as Doug's intro to this edition indicates, it's a more complicated, and much richer journey than appears at first glance. Becoming a mindful coach is founded on practicing mindfulness as a human being, rather than taking on roles according to a formula. His advice to take what appeals and works after diligent practice, then leave the rest (or words to that effect), is well expressed, for mindfulness can be practised in anything we do: the opening of a door, walking down the street, driving a car. In coaching, it is about developing an awareness of many levels of what is happening in the relationship between the coach and the client who has come to the coach to learn from the inside out.
If I were to look for a Third Edition of this book (and Doug may be up for that as he sees the book now as a journey rather than a product), I would look for aspects of the relationship between the coach and client, aspects that emerge when the coach comes to the session with the question "What will we learn together today from these two minds and our conversation?"
Still, I suggest you hop on board the journey at this point! It's well worth taking and in this book, Doug's role is serving as a reflective companion and colleague.
Hannah S. Wilder, Advantara(R) Global Executive Learning and Coach Education Institute.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
This book breaks coaching out of the formula!
7 July 2004
Format:Hardcover
I love this book because instead of putting coaching into a series of formulas and canned techniques, Doug presents a holistic approach to coaching as a unique human interaction. The seven coaching roles he describes are useful and practical without being prescriptive, and the exercises really invite you to understand and know yourself as a canvas upon which the coaching conversation can happen.
Doug has written an important new perspective on coaching that all coaches, consultants, and managers can learn from. I highly recommend this book!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Great Resource Book
30 April 2010
Format:Hardcover
Doug's thoughtfully written book offers experienced and new coaches an important perspective on mindfulness and it's applications for coaching. In fact this book is valuable for anyone wanting to further develop their awareness and effectiveness in relating with others. In addition to theory, it includes valuable skills, techniques and exercises for you and your clients to practice. Doug's Septet Model is practical and based on ancient truths -what a great combination.
As a seasoned coach, I particularly appreciated the emphasis on being conscious of your own thoughts, emotions and behavior instead of changing others behavior. I highly recommend Doug's book as an excellent resource.
As a seasoned coach, I particularly appreciated the emphasis on being conscious of your own thoughts, emotions and behavior instead of changing others behavior. I highly recommend Doug's book as an excellent resource.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A Must-Read for New and Experienced Coaches
22 April 2010
Format:Hardcover
This new edition of The Mindful Coach is a must-read for coaches and leaders serious about guiding the development of others. More than other coaching books, it focuses on how we can build our capacity to serve one another and manifest what we truly care about in the world.
Here Doug distills the wisdom from his many years of coaching and training other coaches and leaders into a readable, compelling book worthy of visiting again and again. The emphasis on the cultivation of self through mindful observation calls us to be accountable for having the integrity to model the very work we ask of our coachees. Doug demonstrates how to be both assertive as a teacher or guide while remaining client-centered and building people's ability to self-coach.
Readers of the 2004 edition of this book will find this new and revised edition worth acquiring. It is much more than a simple update. Doug presents his ideas, models and practices with increased clarity and simplicity. New and more exercises enhance the value of the book for self-guided development. I found especially helpful the separate sections on mindfulness at the conclusion of each of the seven voices (coaching roles) Doug articulates. And the application of the Septet model to leadership development is brought to the fore with links my clients will find compelling. Using this with Doug's excellent Presence-Based Coaching book as a companion will offer any coach or leader rich ground for deep and sustained growth.
Here Doug distills the wisdom from his many years of coaching and training other coaches and leaders into a readable, compelling book worthy of visiting again and again. The emphasis on the cultivation of self through mindful observation calls us to be accountable for having the integrity to model the very work we ask of our coachees. Doug demonstrates how to be both assertive as a teacher or guide while remaining client-centered and building people's ability to self-coach.
Readers of the 2004 edition of this book will find this new and revised edition worth acquiring. It is much more than a simple update. Doug presents his ideas, models and practices with increased clarity and simplicity. New and more exercises enhance the value of the book for self-guided development. I found especially helpful the separate sections on mindfulness at the conclusion of each of the seven voices (coaching roles) Doug articulates. And the application of the Septet model to leadership development is brought to the fore with links my clients will find compelling. Using this with Doug's excellent Presence-Based Coaching book as a companion will offer any coach or leader rich ground for deep and sustained growth.
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